cousins

Our new home...

Front Door

Living Room

Living Room/Kitchen

Hallway to Bedrooms (tall ceilings)

Kitchen, opening looks out on living room

Kitchen/Door to back patio

opening in kitchen

dining area

They had this sweet white dog but he doesn't come with the house

The wall between the kitchen & living room doesn't go all the way to the ceiling

hallway to bedrooms

Maverick's bathroom

Guest Bedroom

Maverick's room

Master Bedroom

Master Bath

Big Jet tub for Mavi to play in

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

I usually find any excuse for putting up Christmas decor early and having a 9 month old who is fascinated with shiny balls and pretty lights is my excuse this year. Maverick LOVES the Christmas tree. If we bonk his head or he slips on the kitchen floor (which NEVER happens) we immediately bring him to the tree and he will stop crying.

helping mommy wrap Christmas presents

spotting the blue ornament

reaching...

reaching...

got it!

going after it

decisions decisions

Maverick has begun to want things that mommy uses a lot such as cleaning supplies, coffee mugs, t.v. remotes, credit cards....you know, the essentials. when he crawled into this room he immediately passed up his two cars and little red bike to play with the vacuum. Another video captured him looking between his two favorite toys for a quite a while but it was having problems uploading so this one will do...

Bundled up to go to the park on a cold day

playing with Tobey

Harvest Party

Our church had a harvest party for haloween ....

Ryan (Wizard of Oz) Maverick (Lion) & Erica (Tinman)

Mike (scarecrow) Regan (Dorothy) Ryan, Maverick,
Erica & Cara (munchkin)

Ryan & Ronnie

Erica & Steve

Laney's cousin (lion), Laney(pig) & Maverick (the better lion)
This was Maverick's expression for most of the night.
He was extremely confused by all the costumes around him. We were slightly worried when a Chewbaca surprised him and expected tears but he reached out for the giant dog and smiled. He lasted at least an hour in the costume and kept wanting to play with mommy's toy ax. The night successfully ended with a bag full of candy for maverick to share with his parents.

Earlier in the week, we carved pumpkins

and Maverick learned to drive

crawling

Dr. Blase

Ryan gave his final defense today for his PhD in Chemistry and passed. We are so proud of him!

Here Maverick is eating solid food!

Mav got to see his cousins this weekend because Aunt Jessie left for Africa today.

Maverick with his favorite toy, mommy's laundry basket

sitting in his big boy cow chair

getting pushed around on his car by daddy
only smarty pants Mav can make the horn work, we have no idea how he does it

having a mid day conference

helping daddy blow out the candles for his birthday

fajita nightd